Daylight saving time explained

Daylight saving time ends this weekend. What's behind the tradition of turning our clocks back each fall?

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Part of the 1918 law also legislated for the observance of daylight saving time nationwide, but that section was repealed and the matter left to local jurisdictions a year later in 1919.

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